Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

Running can be a transformative activity for many of us, and it can certainly help us reach our fitness goals,

but it can also be limiting to our overall movement

goals. But by rethinking our running habits, we can maximize running's benefits and minimize

its shortcomings. And I'm going to talk about that today. Now, running bestows a broad range of

health and fitness benefits, but those benefits are limited

when you run the same way every single day. For instance, if you run on a path at the same

speed, listening to your MP3 player at the same time of day on the same slope, in the same

shoes for the same distance, well, you are robbing

yourself of some of the benefits that you could be getting from all that valuable movement

time. There are many variables that affect the benefits your run can give you, and you know what,

we rarely take the time to think about it. So to help you spice up your running efforts and make

sure that you reap the full rewards from each and every run workout, here are some ways to

make your run workout more challenging and more beneficial. The 10 tips we're going to cover

today are, number one, vary your terrain.

Number two, run somewhere new.

Number three, run in a group.

Number four, stop and smell the frickin' roses.

Number five, wear different shoes.

Number six, run tech free.

Number seven, try multitasking. Number eight, carries something.

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